Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale University Divinity School, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-60).

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Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale University Divinity School, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-60).

The purpose of this thesis is to study the writings of two schools of economic thought to bring out the theories of production, resources, and waste of resources involved and compare and contrast them.

No abstract available / Economics / M. Com. (Economics)

The combination of price inflation and historical cost-based depreciation for tax purposes has been shown in the finance literature to reduce the present value of depreciation deductions. Since tax depreciation deductions are limited to a nominal dollar amount, when inflation occurs a future tax deduction has less real value. This effect is pedagogically presented in a capital budgeting context. In the economic literature Hotelling and Herfindahl have contributed models describing natural resource production changes in response to changes in demand, production cost, and cost of capital. Parts of the inflation-explicit capital budgeting model and the Hotelling and Herfindahl models are combined. The result is a partial equilibrium model which yields the conclusion that production from a natural resource is reduced if inflation is increased. Copper industry data from 1947-1978 are examined for empirical confirmation of the theoretical model. A copper industry production function, which contained demand, real price and labor strike variables, gained in descriptive capability by inclusion of inflation as an additional multiple regression variable. The dissertation reviews literature on the relationship between capital investment and inflation. The cases of hyper-inflation in Germany and medium inflation in Latin America are considered. Other literature review topics include the inflation effects in the securities markets, inflation-caused wealth transfers and inflation adjustments in accounting statements.

M.Com. (Economics and Business Science) / For years the South African economy emphasised the importance of the agricultural industry in the country. Only relatively recently it seems to have begun to acknowledge the importance of the industrial and manufacturing sectors. A part of the manufacturing sector is made up of the motor and related industries. It is the aim of this dissertation to investigate the importance of this sector by building a input-output model for this and other related industries. "The gap between elegant, but non-operational, theory and inadequately structured empirical research has always been serious in economics. Leontief's conception of input-output analysis proposed to eliminate this gap." This dissertation is firstly explores input-output analysis and the theory behind it, as developed by the Polish economist Wassily Leontief; then researches the current situation in the South African Motor Industry using facts depicted in graphs and the elaboration of these graphs. Thirdly there is a short overview of the importance of Phase VI of the local content programme, and the problems related to this programme. Finally the model itself will be built and then analysed. This dissertation does, however, only serve as an indication and does not provide final answers.

by Ho King-hang. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-53). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENT --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi / PREFACE --- p.vii / CHAPTER / Chapter I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4 / Macroeconomic Variables as State Variables --- p.4 / Stock Returns and Real Activity --- p.5 / Efficient Capital Markets and Real Activity --- p.5 / Innovations in Real Variables --- p.7 / Impact of Real Activity across Different States of Economy --- p.9 / Stock Returns and Money --- p.10 / The Quantity Theory of Money --- p.10 / Wealth Effect and Substitution Effect --- p.12 / "Money Supply Process: Linkage between Stock Returns, Real Activity, and Money" --- p.14 / Stock Returns and Discount Rates --- p.15 / Chapter III --- DATA AND METHODOLOGY --- p.17 / The Data --- p.17 / Statistical Properties of the Data --- p.18 / Research Methodology --- p.20 / Vector Autoregression (VAR) Analysis --- p.20 / Multiple Regression Analysis --- p.24 / Chapter IV --- EMPIRICAL RESULTS --- p.27 / Crosscorrelations --- p.27 / Stock Returns and Real Activity --- p.27 / "Stock Returns, Real Activity, and Money" --- p.28 / "Real Activity, Money, and Discount Rates" --- p.30 / Unit Root Tests --- p.31 / Specification of the VAR Model --- p.35 / Stock Returns and Real Activity --- p.35 / "Stock Returns, Real Activity, and Money" --- p.35 / "Real Activity, Money, and Discount Rates" --- p.39 / Multiple Regression Analysis --- p.43 / Chapter V --- CONCLUDING REMARKS --- p.48 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.51

The study of technological innovation covers a broad range of issues. Everything, from the public funding of science, research policy to the role of universities, from the business development of new products and services, the financing of innovation, institutional arrangements through to the spatially located conditions that promote innovation has been considered by analysts. Mostly these subject matters have been conceptualised as components of 'national’ systems of innovation even when studied at different spatial levels (including regions and clusters). The emphasis of systems research is that places (nations or localities), within the global economic landscape, are especially important for the creation, spread and use of innovations. The systems perspective on innovation encourages, due to results on the development of endogenous capabilities and the proximity of knowledge spillovers, a view that production and innovation geographies are enclaves of activity, innovating largely in isolation from what is occurring in other technologically isolated systems. A central concern in the present thesis is that this view of national and sub-national systems does not provide a sufficiently comprehensive perspective on the global architecture of production. The primary goal is to begin to develop an innovation systems framework that combines the consideration of the advantages of individual spatial entities (clusters) with an analysis of value chains as they extend across regional and national borders. To achieve this, the analysis focuses on evaluating the role, scale and spatial structure of inter-cluster linkages. The literature on role of interdependencies within clusters suggests that user producer and tacit knowledge flows are more important for innovation than traded interdependencies. To aid the analysis of the scale and spatial structure of interdependencies and rather than be restricted by case studies methods which would facilitate analysis of only one or two clusters, two inter-country input-output datasets covering nine OECD countries (33 sectors) and fifteen European Union countries (25 sectors) were developed for the research project. To analyse these datasets in a manner that was consistent with the goals of the research new modelling software was constructed. The analysis of these spatial structures reveals that substantial associations exist between some clusters, with most national clusters maintaining one important connection. The analysis reveals differences in the global architecture of production for assembly based systems (motor vehicles and aerospace) when compared to modular component based systems such as electronics and computing. Just as businesses form networks, then it seems reasonable, on the basis of the research presented here, to suggest that global production consists of networks of clusters which are organised in hierarchical circuits. This evidence supports the argument developed through the present thesis that certain elements of innovation systems can be better understood through a crossborder cluster-to-cluster framework / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)